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Jimmy TwoTimes' buddy Fletch squeals on Danny Boyles' MILLIONS
Hey folks, Harry here... Danny Boyles' family film... can't wait to give this one a looksee. Usually family films don't really have talent like Danny Boyles' attached, and usually the immediate film that a director of a family film doesn't direct before a family film is a blood vomiting rabid zombies on the rampage film. I'm just saying... usually - it isn't done like that. Heh... Here ya go...
Hi Harry,
My buddy Fletch has just been lucky enough to see Danny Boyle's latest 'Millions'.
Here's the Review:
Millions
Better than Brewster's says Fletch
A modern day magical fairytale from the director of diversity: Danny Boyle. He who has brought us such iconic films as Trainspotting and 28 Days Later brings to the screen a film about two young brothers dealing with the death of their mother and the new found wealth of a large holdall of cash…
Set in a new housing development somewhere in the north of England, Damian and Anthony are two normal lads who are coming to terms with their new life, a new house and new adventures when one day Damian comes across a bag of cash and shares this with his brother. The two are unaware that the money has been dumped by the mob waiting to pick it up at a safer time.
The Cunningham boys begin their story as one wants to spend and the other wants to help the needy (as their father carries on completely oblivious). The backdrop to the main story has the UK going through the introduction of the Euro, so the clock is ticking for them being able to spend the money and foiling the rightful owner of the cash.
Quite a departure for Boyle, this very British film is more of a step back for the director as he( I am sure) wants to get involved with smaller intimate projects as well as the big budget backed studio films. The two young actors playing the Cunningham brother are very good and TV favourite James Nesbitt plays the busy bumbling father. A great ensemble sees familiar faces from TV and film used to great comic effect with the boys always at the centre of things.
But it is the story and underlying message about greed that rises to the top for me. Very topical and rightfully moralistic, this film should hit screens just at the right time.
As with any Danny Boyle film the look and feel is very stylistic and some great shots have not been compromised by a relatively small budget. A good use of soundtrack has some great pounding moments of action one minute, to very emotional touching scenes the next. This is definitely a crowd pleaser as you are drawn into their world right from the start and this story has many highs and many lows you can’t help getting involved.
I thought the film had a wonderful opening twenty minutes with some really inventive camera work and SFX that just sucker punches you from when the curtains go back and the final act was again very well done but it did tend to drag in the middle with very little to do, but when called upon it did kick into gear. Like so many films these days it is very hard to maintain the opening expectations but with that in mind it is so much better than most things made and financed in the UK!
High points would have to be the two main leads that are stars in the making, they gel this film together and make you care. Low point would have to be the second act that lacks the impact of the start and finish. One to watch though as it has a Christmas release this year, and with the right campaign it could be on everyone’s alternative wish list when the big guns have fired this festive season.
3/5
Hope you can use!!
Kind regards
JimmyTwoTimes
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bitches.....And thus, I have spoken! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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pretend everything i am writting is in the shape of a unhappy face emoticon, jerks.
anyway, is danny boyle ever gonna direct something in or about america? -
that black chick should have shown her guns,
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Danny Boyle was in America.....he made "A Life Less Ordinary"...and "The Beach" was an american production....just shot on the other side of the world.....And thus, hollywood pays cash! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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SHALLOW GRAVE: Great little film...
TRAINSPOTTING: Cult & Classic... one of the best of the 90's
A LIFE LESS ORDINARY: better than what people think of it... very weird & different from what you would expect from movie with cameron Diaz... still it has great moments, great ideas & very funny moments...
THE BEACH: much better than what people wrote about it (although I have to say I never read the book)... it failed only because people were fed up with Leonardo after TITANIC, although he was quite brave to play the dickhead in THE BEACH... see it again, it's worth it...
28 DAYS LATER: Great little horror film... the beginning is totally amazing... this is what good horror movies should all be like... -
Is This Part Three (sorry to state the obvious).
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but how does the money go from being under ewans floorboards to the kids in this film?? no doubt that crazy robbie carlyle will be involved!
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It's just a rip-off of "Dawn of the Dead".
I did enjoy "A Life Less Ordinary" immensely, though. Hilarious and surreal. -
Hello to all, my name is James Brown, but you can call me Henry Earl, most everyone does but the funny thing is my name is actually Mustafa! Now listen, if I found a bag full of money there are certain things you have to do, firstly I would put it in a bigger bag, take it to my friend Clive's place and tell him it was a body and he shouldna be touching it. Then I would pay $50 thousand to walk up to Adolphus Busch IV punch him in the face and piss on his I-talian shoes cause that punk deserves it for the piss he tries to pass off as beer. Then I would by two hundred cases of Franzia Red Blush, cause that stuff is the nectar of the gods goddammitt, and then hide it at my place and sit on the roof and watch the sun rise and set while enjoying my drink. Oh yeah and I would buy a bowling ball to drop on the head of that damn dog if he started barking again. Finally I think I would stop by the mutherfuckin' Stop N' Go for some porn and a corn dog, and maybe some rubbers cause you never know.
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I liked SHALLOW GRAVE a lot (although all I can remember now is the scene with the trio interviewing prospective flatmates). I think it only got a theatrical release here in the US because of it's similarities in tone & style to PULP FICTION. Lost respect for Boyle, though, when he claimed he never saw PF or RESERVOIR DOGS. Is ALIEN LOVE TRIANGLE ever going to get released?
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Shallow Grave and Trainspotting beat his other films by quite a margin. They pretty much gave birth to the current British film industry. The two films he made in America; A Life Less Ordinary and The Beach where ok but had clearly been tampered with by the industry bigwigs. Hopefully this will be a return to form. Although I am biased cus my friend Alex Turner is in it.
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Fuck Nesbitt, kinda actor only your mother likes, and those shitty yellow pages ads? Hes a mug. Big up the North West! Gunchester in the hizzle, dizzle!
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Unless by "genius" you meant "hasn't made a great movie in nearly a decade." Trainspotting: Fantastic. Shallow Grave: Really good. The Beach: Loved it the first time when it was called Mosquito Coast, second time through ... this time it was crap. A Life Less Ordinary: How many spoiled rich chicks falling in love with their kidnapper movies do we need to see? 28 Days Later: Great premise, highly uneven tone, turns to utter crap once the men-with-guns show up.
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Apr 28, 2004 4:52:35 PM CDT
Shallow Grave tone and style similar to Pulp Fiction? How exactl
by jimbolo
I thought we'd got past the stage where every goddamn movie that came out was compared in some way to Pulp Fiction! Jesus Christ, TARANTINO DID NOT GIVE BIRTH TO CINEMA!!!
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